McGraw-Hill Films

A high school student faces a moral dilemma, should he turn in a friend who is dealing pills.

“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive)

Liz tries to keep her friend from making the worse mistake of her life.

Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about their cattle, and depicts the psychological bonds between them. Includes extensive use of Nuer music and poetry.

A film version of Edward Lear's narrative poem about the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a pea-green boat

Surveys the rise to wealth and power by industrial giants with references to Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Shows the growth of monopoly and the emergence of trusts. Suggests the role fraud and corruption played in the establishment of monopolies.

A Documentary surrounding the activities of a sampan fisherman and his family along the Min River in China's Fukien Province.